Serbian National Defense Council

Serbian National Defense Council (SND)

Serbian National Defense Council logo
Formation	1914
Type	Serbian nationalism, Pan-Serbism, Anti-Globalism, Anti-Communism, Monarchism, Anti-Fascism
Headquarters	Chicago, Toronto, Sydney
Key people	Mihajlo Pupin Jovan Dučić Momčilo Đujić Nikola Kavaja Dragiša Kašiković

The Serbian National Defense Council (SND) (Serbian Cyrillic: Српска Народна Одбрана) is a Serbian Serbian-American community organization whose goal is to protect Serbs, the Serbian Orthodox Church and Serbian interests abroad.

SND was founded by Mihajlo Pupin in 1914 in New York City, NY, in midst of anti-Serb tensions leading up to the First World War. Soon after being founded, 83 branches sprung up across the United States and began aiding in the war effort. From 1914 to 1917 SND raised roughly half a million dollars for Serbs in the Balkans, and recruited 17,000 American Serb volunteers to fight on the Salonika Front.

By 1941, SND headquarters were relocated to Chicago, Illinois, under the leadership of Mihailo Dučić, and the organization's activities and influence waned. With the arrival of Mihailo's brother, Jovan Dučić, an esteemed writer/diplomat, the Serbian National Defense Council was revived. Throughout the Second World War, the SND was heavily engaged in collecting relief funds for Serbs and supporting the Chetnik cause.

After World War II, the Pro-Tito US government under the FARA act, began an intensive probe into all Serbian Nationalist organizations in the US, primarily SND, and continued until 1947.